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[stephanie familiar]

Thoughts & Rambles on Carnage!

i've been looking forward to seeing that. the trailer is intense though.


(edit: it's directed by roman polanski, so i won't be paying to see it)

[steveuk]

Summit said today it is moving back the wide release of its zombie pic Warm Bodies from August 10, 2012 to February 1, 2013. The movie stars Nicolas Hoult and Teresa Palmer in a story about an unusual zombie who rescues a girl from some of his cohorts and the pair fall in love. Jonathan Levine wrote the script and directed. The move gets it out of the way of tentpoles The Bourne Legacy and Total Recall, which are set to premiere the week before Warm Bodies‘ original date. The February 1 date had been unclaimed.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/summit-pushes-warm-bodies-release-date/

[Paul F]

Oof. With that and Jack The Giant Killer, someone clearly isn't confident about Nicholas Hoult as a leading man.

[steveuk]

Oof. With that and Jack The Giant Killer, someone clearly isn't confident about Nicholas Hoult as a leading man.

But after these two films (eventually) open, they might be!

I like him as an actor, but I'm not sure he's got that much charisma?

[Johnny Henning]

WARM BODIES sounds like all kinds of wrong. Like they are trying to do TWILIGHT with zombies.

[T Masters]

I's based on a book, if I recall, which is supposedly very clever and well-written. Might be the type of film that reacts against twilight and the vampire diaries in the same way that something like True Blood does.

[steveuk]

WARM BODIES sounds like all kinds of wrong. Like they are trying to do TWILIGHT with zombies.

I think it's an incredibly tricky concept to put on screen. Zombies aint sexy, but at least they can be pitiable on some levels.

I'm not asking for spoilers but I wonder how closely this follows the emotional ride of the Romeo and Juliet model? I can't really see it ending happily ever after.

[Christian U]

(edit: it's directed by roman polanski, so i won't be paying to see it)

That's understandable. I might take the same stance.


Dunno about Friend for the End of the World. I like the premise, but from the trailer, the movie doesn't seem to do anything really interesting with it. I'm a bit bored by the trailer, really, and that is not a good sign.

[Robert B]

(edit: it's directed by roman polanski, so i won't be paying to see it)

I thought by your own admission you don't pay to see anything? Kind of takes the sting out of a boycott!

[Steve Sensible]

Another unwelcome addition to the current trend of fairy-tale reimaginings; Snow White and the Seven Ninjas...?

[stephanie familiar]

I thought by your own admission you don't pay to see anything? Kind of takes the sting out of a boycott!

huh? since when do i not pay to see anything?

[Robert B]

huh? since when do i not pay to see anything?

Oh, I thought you've copped to streaming what you watch at a few different points. It's neither here nor there, I'm just teasing.

[stephanie familiar]

Oh, I thought you've copped to streaming what you watch at a few different points. It's neither here nor there, I'm just teasing.

i download all the time, but i also pay for music/movies as well.

[Rory Abel]

Another unwelcome addition to the current trend of fairy-tale reimaginings; Snow White and the Seven Ninjas...?

That's been in development for ages. It was originally going to be kung fu and was called "The Seven Masters."

[Johnny Henning]

I think it's an incredibly tricky concept to put on screen. Zombies aint sexy, but at least they can be pitiable on some levels.

I'm not asking for spoilers but I wonder how closely this follows the emotional ride of the Romeo and Juliet model? I can't really see it ending happily ever after.

Well... if she becomes a zombie it sorta does.

Then again, we've yet to see a zombie film where they cure the zombies. It's gonna happen eventually.

[Steve Sensible]

Aren't zombies traditionally dead? How do you cure death?

[T Masters]

Didn't they come up with a cure in 28 Weeks Later?

[Steve Sensible]

Didn't they come up with a cure in 28 Weeks Later?

Was it a cure? Robert Carlyle's wife was immune I think, but I don't recall if there was a cure.

[brucegray666]

They weren't zombie in 28 Days / Weeks Later. They were infected to the "rage" virus. Also, there's the whole "they could run" thing too (which means not proper zombies).

[steveuk]

They weren't zombie in 28 Days / Weeks Later. They were infected to the "rage" virus. Also, there's the whole "they could run" thing too (which means not proper zombies).

The rules of what makes a "zombie" are pretty arbitrary, we've moved a long way from the voodoo servants of early films but I would agree that the '28 Days/28 Weeks Later' films feature living people who are in no way "dead" or "un-dead". '28 Weeks' in particular makes it clear that all the "infected" have "died" in the six months since the events of the first film. That's why the UK is now considered safe enough to attempt a re-colonisation.

Catherine McCormack's character is indeed immune from the effects of the virus, but not from infection itself. She's a carrier.

So, what about the dead zombies? Could they be cured?

Well, in a movie (or a TV show, or a book, or a comic, etc.) of course they could be. The idea of animate corpses is unreal enough to start with, making that condition curable in some way, whether it be a complete recovery, or just a restoration of full mental function, is something that a good writer could sell to an audience.

I'm not saying it would be easy to do well, it never is, but it could be done by the right person with the right approach.

'Warm Bodies' may be doing something along those lines, but I don't know and, as I said earlier, don't really want to know before I see the film, or possibly read the book.